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The University Gallery presents curated exhibitions and touring shows that facilitate an awareness of contemporary art, artists, communities and disciplines. We also support and promote local and emerging artists through our exhibition program and present research exhibitions by our postgraduate
candidates at the University of Newcastle.

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Current Exhibition

Exhibition: 11 February to 28 February 2015Opening: Wednesday 11 February at 5:30pm

Nicole Chaffeynorth: remembering country

Pablo TapiaLuz Corporea

Nicole
Chaffey started her art education in 2006, completing an Advanced Diploma of
Fine Art at the Newcastle Art School (TAFE) in 2008. She most recently
graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) from the University of
Newcastle in 2010 and has exhibited regularly in Newcastle and regionally. She
maintains a professional studio practice in the Newcastle suburb of Georgetown.

north: remembering country is the result of Chaffey's MPhil candidature
at the University of Newcastle. Expanding on a long and intensive study of
humanity's relationship with the Australian landscape, Chaffey has turned her
investigations inward, exploring concepts of contemporary Aboriginality,
memorial and emotional ties to the country of her forbears, the Biripi country
of the Manning River region and the intricate familial relationships that keep
it all connected.

Traditional
paint medium and paper surfaces evoke a deep history of attachment to place,
and skyward looking imagery is a reminder of the transience and evolutionary
nature of identity.

Growing up during 17 years of recent
military dictatorship in Chile - a country imbued with a complex mix of Native American cosmology and
European culture – influences the way Pablo
Tapia views life at large. This, and ongoing visual deterioration, means he sees
life as a complex, magical, and sometimes uneasy experience.

He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine
Art in 2005 from the University of Newcastle before studying with painter Charlie Sheard in Sydney. Tapia's current
practice reflects a passion for surface and the materiality of Renaissance painting methods. Luz Corporea is the result of long
research into the transformation of personal language of feelings into a
powerful universal form. Light and memories find substance and activity in the physicality of paint.

Tapia is represented by Frances
Keevil Gallery. Luz Corporea is the
result of his recent MPhil candidature at the University of Newcastle.

Please join
us to celebrate this important event. Free entry, refreshments served.

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